Method of dynamic balancing for magnetic levitation molecular pump (4)

ABSTRACT

A rotor dynamic balancing method for magnetic levitation molecular pump, includes activating an open loop feed forward control module after activating a motor of the magnetic levitation molecular pump; if the maximum radial vibration amplitude does not exceed ½ of a protective clearance during the acceleration of the rotor under the control of the open loop feed forward control module, indicating that the open loop feed forward control module is able to inhibit the co-frequency vibration of the rotor, so as to allow the rotational speed of the rotor to exceed its rigid critical rotational speed; and performing rotor dynamic balancing operation at a high speed by means of influence coefficient method. This method can directly perform rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to the rotor at a high-speed, which facilitates the rotor dynamic balancing operation so as to perform the rotor dynamic balancing operation more quickly and efficiently.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a vacuum production device, inparticular, a method of rotor dynamic balancing for magnetic levitationmolecular pump.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

A molecular pump is a type of vacuum pump, which takes advantage of ahigh rotating wheel of a rotor for delivering momentum to gas moleculesso as to provide them with desired direction speed, thus the gas shallbe inhibited and driven towards the exhaust, and then be pumped by aforestage pump. A magnetic levitation molecular pump is a molecular pumpthat takes a magnetic bearing (also known as active magnetic levitationbearing) as a bearing for the rotor of the molecular pump, and the rotoris suspended in the air stably through the magnetic bearing, so that nomechanical contact exists between the rotor and the stator during therotation of the rotor with high speed. Thus, the magnetic levitationmolecular pump has several advantages such as no mechanical attrition,low energy consumption, allowed rotating with high speed, low noise,long life-time, no requirement of lubrication, etc. Currently, themagnetic levitation molecular pumps are widely applied to field ofvacuum production devices for obtaining high vacuum and high cleanlinessvacuum environment.

The inner structure of the magnetic levitation molecular pump is shownin FIG. 1. The rotor of magnetic levitation molecular pump comprises arotor shaft 7 and a wheel 1 in fixed connection with the rotor shaft 7.The wheel 1 is fixed on the upper portion of the rotor shaft 7; therotor shaft 7 is successively covered with a first radial magneticbearing 6, a motor 8, and a second radial magnetic bearing 9 etc. in aseparated manner. The above listed assemblies together constitute therotor shaft system of the magnetic levitation molecular pump.

After completing assemble of the magnetic levitation molecular pump,imbalance mass may exist in the rotor because of several problems suchas differences between processing accuracy of every part of the rotor.Imbalance mass means mass in a certain distance from the barycenter ofthe rotor, and the product of this mass and centripetal accelerationequals to the rotor's imbalance centrifugal force. When the imbalancemass is much larger than 10 mg, due to this imbalance mass, an eccentricmoment may be generated between the barycenter of the rotor and itsaxis. Therefore, during the rotating ascend of the rotor, thecentrifugal force caused by the imbalance mass of the rotor may causetransverse mechanical vibration of the rotor (usually radial vibration),and further to impact normal work of the system. In addition, normalworking speed of the rotor of the magnetic levitation molecular pump isremaining within a high speed range that is beyond the rigid criticalspeed of the rotor, and the imbalance mass may also block the rotor fromrotating with an increasing speed till normal working speed, i.e. themagnetic levitation molecular pump cannot work normally. Here, the rigidcritical speed of the rotor indicates a rotating speed that is incorrespondence to a speed when the rotating frequency of the rotorequals to the rigid resonance frequency of the rotor bearing system;while the high speed range which higher than rigid critical speed may beknown as super rigid critical rotating speed range.

A method for inhibiting imbalance vibration generated during theacceleration and deceleration of the rotating member rotating with highspeed such as the rotor of the magnetic vibration molecular pump, andthe method is called “method of controlling imbalance vibration”.Chinese Periodical Literature “a method of controlling imbalancevibration of magnetic levitation bearing system” (Dekui, ZHANG, Wei,JIANG, Hongbin, ZHAO, Journal of Tsinghua University (science andtechnology) 2000, Volume 40, No. 10) discloses two methods ofcontrolling imbalance vibration. One is force free control, theprinciple of which is to generate a compensation signal having a samephase and a same amplitude with a displacement/vibration signal of therotor, in order to counteract same frequency of vibration of the rotor.The other method is open loop feed forward control, the principle ofwhich is extracting a same frequency component of a vibration signal ofthe rotor, and then generating a corresponding controlling signal by anextra feed forward control, which may be added into a controlling signalof a main controller.

Chinese patent literature CN101261496A discloses a high-precisioncontrol system for active vibration of magnetic levitation wheel,comprising a displacement sensor, a current sensor, a controller formagnetic bearing and an power amplifier for magnetic bearing, wherein,the controller for magnetic bearing comprises a stability controller, aeccentric estimation unit, a magnetic force compensation unit and aswitch. Based on stability control, the patent also introduces theeccentric estimation unit and the magnetic force compensation unit aswell as taking advantage of wheel imbalance vibration parameter so as tomake compensation to imbalance values and negative displacement rigiditywithin allowed rotating speed of the wheel. Therefore, imbalancevibration within allowed rotating speed of the wheel is controlled,furthermore, the wheel can rotate around the inertia axis withhigh-precision during the entire acceleration and deceleration of thewheel. Additionally, Chinese patent literature CN 101046692A disclosesan open loop high-precision control system for imbalance vibration ofmagnetic bearing reaction wheel, comprising a displacement sensor, aninterface circuit for displacement signal, a detector for rotatingspeed, a controller for magnetic bearing, a power amplifier circuit formagnetic bearing and a detector for position of the wheel. Thecontroller for magnetic bearing comprises an axial controller and aradial controller, wherein, the axial controller comprises a controllerfor stability and a controller for imbalance vibration that is adaptedfor providing compensation to displacement feedback of the controllerfor stability. Based on stability controlling, imbalance vibrationcontrolling is incorporated. By using imbalance vibration parameter ofthe wheel detected during the high-speed rotation of the wheel, as wellas using current position of the rotor of the wheel detected by thedetector for position of the wheel, imbalance vibration is controlled inan open loop high-precision manner within the allowed rotating speed ofthe wheel, thus imbalance vibration controlling is achieved within theentire allowed rotating speed of the wheel, which ensures the wheel torotate with a high-precision during its acceleration and deceleration.

The two aforesaid patent literatures disclose specific applications of“method for rotor imbalance vibration control”. However, due to limitedability of imbalance vibration control by using “method for rotorimbalance vibration control”, which means it is required the imbalancemass of the rotating member staying within a certain threshold.Therefore, the method for imbalance vibration control cannot completelysolve the problem of the rotor vibration caused by rotor's imbalancemass. When there is a large imbalance mass in the rotor, the “method forrotor imbalance vibration control” cannot be used any more to suppressvibration of the rotor and to accelerate the rotor directly beyond therigid critical rotating speed till its normal working rotating speed.

Thus, after assembling the magnetic levitation molecular pump, rotordynamic balancing operation is required to be executed. Here “rotordynamic balancing operation” means an operation for adjusting andeliminating imbalance mass through measuring weight and phase of theimbalance mass of the rotor, so that no centrifugal force shall begenerated during the rotation of the rotor.

Generally, a rotor dynamic balancing device is used for executing rotordynamic balancing operation, with steps of:

firstly, rotating the rotor at a low speed (slower than rigid criticalrotating speed of the rotor), and operating rotor dynamic balancingthrough the rotor dynamic balancing device;

then, adding or removing weight to the rotor in a purpose of balance soas to eliminate its imbalance mass preliminarily;

then, repeating the above listed steps till the rotating speed of therotor being accelerated beyond rigid critical rotating speed;

when the rotating speed of the rotor is accelerated into the range ofsuper rigid critical rotating speed, operating rotor dynamic balancingagain through the rotor dynamic balancing device at a high speed, andthen adding or removing weight to the rotor thereafter. In order toeliminate imbalance mass accurately, the aforesaid steps are required tobe repeated for several times.

When the rotor of magnetic levitation molecular pump is rotating at aspeed in the range of super rigid critical rotating speed, we focus onthe performance of the rotor at high rotating speed, thus the effect ofoperating rotor dynamic balancing when the rotor is rotating at lowspeed is not obvious. Only when the rotating speed of the rotor is muchmore faster than the rigid critical rotating speed (entering the rangeof super rigid critical rotating speed), the rotor may rotate around itsbarycenter approximately. At this moment, operating rotor dynamicbalancing may get more accurate and better effects. However, due to theexisted imbalance mass, the rotor cannot be accelerated directly intothe range of super rigid critical rotating speed, furthermore cannot beoperated with rotor dynamic balancing operation at a high speed.Therefore, it is required to operate the rotor with rotor dynamicbalancing operation when the rotor is rotating at a low speed and thenaccelerate it till the range of super rigid critical rotating speed, andoperate it with rotor dynamic balancing operation again at high speed.This method of dynamic balancing of the rotor is quite inconvenient andinefficient. Also, the rotor dynamic balancing device used for operatingdynamic balancing is commercially available, and people purchase thisdevice in addition for dynamic balancing operation to the rotor, whichmay increase the cost of their products.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In view of the forgoing, the present invention aims at solving at leastone technical problem that the method of rotor dynamic balancing for themagnetic levitation molecular pump of prior art is inconvenient andinefficient, thus providing a method of directly dynamic balancing for amagnetic levitation molecular pump rotor at high-speed, which isconvenient and efficient as well as no requirements for a rotor dynamicbalancing device and low cost.

To solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides amethod of rotor dynamic balancing for magnetic levitation molecularpump.

Advantages of this invention are summarized below:

1. The method of rotor dynamic balancing for the magnetic levitationmolecular pump of the present invention, activating an open loop feedforward control module of a controller of the magnetic levitationmolecular pump after activating a motor of the magnetic levitationmolecular pump, if the maximum radial vibration amplitude caused by theimbalance mass of the rotor does not exceed ½ of a protective clearanceduring the acceleration of the rotor under the control of the open loopfeed forward control module (i.e. the imbalance mass of the rotor isbelow a preset threshold), indicating that the open loop feed forwardcontrol module is able to inhibit the co-frequency vibration of therotor so as to allow the rotational speed of the rotor to exceed therigid critical rotational speed thereof after a short time period, thendirectly performing rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect tothe rotor of the magnetic levitation molecular pump at a high-speed. Itfacilitates the rotor dynamic balancing operation so as to perform therotor dynamic balancing operation more quickly and efficiently, whichgreatly improves the efficiency of rotor dynamic balancing and theeffect of balancing. Additionally, to utilize the method of rotordynamic balancing for magnetic levitation molecular pump of the presentinvention, no rotor additional dynamic balancing device is required, butby means of the first radial displacement sensor and the second radialdisplacement sensor thereof to perform measurements, which simplifiesthe structure of equipment, reduces the cost, and improves the use valueof the product.

2. By means of the method of dynamic balancing for magnetic levitationmolecular pump of the present invention, it allows the rotor dynamicbalancing module arranged inside the controller to calculate therequired balance mass and its loaded phase may be preformed of the rotorinstead of the rotor dynamic balancing device, so as to reduce the cost.

3. It is advantageous for the method of rotor dynamic balancing formagnetic levitation molecular pump of the present invention to comprisetwo balance planes disposed on an upper portion and a lower portion ofthe rotor respectively, which are respectively far away form thebarycenter of the rotor and close to two ends of the rotor, thus greaterforce moments may be generated during adding of the compensationvectors, so as to improve efficiency of balancing.

4. It is advantageous for the method of rotor dynamic balancing formagnetic levitation molecular pump of the present invention that thevibration threshold with respect to the nonrated rotational speed is 40μm, which meets the requirement of the radial vibration amplitude of therotor at the nonrated rotational speed and allows the rotor toaccelerate stably to the rated rotational speed. And the vibrationthreshold with respect to the rated rotational speed is 0.1 μm, and thepreset imbalance mass is 10 mg, which allows the rotor to rotate stablyat the rated rotational speed, so as to ensure a stable operation of themagnetic levitation molecular pump.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Detailed description will be given below in conjunction withaccompanying drawings:

FIG. 1 shows a structure of a magnetic levitation molecular pump of thepresent invention;

FIG. 2 shows the principle of the control algorithm of open loop feedforward control module of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the method of rotor dynamic balancing of thepresent invention;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of the method of rotor dynamic balancing by meansof influence coefficient method of the present invention;

In the drawings, the following reference numbers are used:

1—flywheel, 2—controller of a magnetic levitation molecular pump, 3—pumpbody, 4—first radial protective bearing, 5—first radial displacementsensor, 6—first radial magnetic bearing, 7—rotor shaft, 8—motor.9—second radial magnetic bearing, 10—second radial displacement sensor,11—second radial protective bearing, 12—axial protective bearing,13—first axial magnetic bearing, 14—thrust plane, 15—second axialmagnetic bearing, 16—axial displacement sensor, 17—connector,18—displacement detector, 19—rotational speed detector.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

FIG. 1 shows a structure of the magnetic levitation molecular pump ofthe present invention. The magnetic levitation molecular pump of thepresent embodiment is arranged vertically, which comprises a pump body3, a rotor shaft system disposed in the pump body 3, and othercomponents necessary for the magnetic levitation molecular pump of priorart.

The rotor shaft system comprises a rotor, a first radial magneticbearing 6, a second radial magnetic bearing 9, a first axial magneticbearing 13 and a second axial magnetic bearing 15; the rotor comprises arotor shaft 7, a flywheel 1 fixed to the rotor shaft 7, and a pluralityof assembling members adapted for fixing the flywheel 1, such as bolts,nuts etc.

The axis of the rotor shaft 7 is arranged in the vertical direction, andthe flywheel 1 is disposed on the upper portion of the rotor shaft 7 ina fixing manner. The first axial magnetic bearing 13, the second axialmagnetic bearing 15, a thrust plane 14, an axial protective bearing 12and an axial displacement sensor 16 for detecting axial displacementsignals of the rotor are disposed on the lower portion of the rotorshaft 7. The rotor shaft 7 is successively covered with a first radialprotective bearing 4, a first radial displacement sensor 5, the firstradial magnetic bearing 6, a motor 8, the second radial magnetic bearing9, a second radial displacement sensor 10 and a second protectivebearing 11 and the like. The first radial protective bearing 4 isdisposed coaxial with the second radial protective bearing 11 and withthe same radial dimension. The first radial magnetic bearing 6 comprisesa stator and a rotor; the stator of the first radial magnetic bearing isfixed to the pump body; the rotor of the first radial magnetic bearingis fixed to the rotor shaft 7; the first radial displacement sensor 5 isadapted for detecting radial displacement signals of the rotor withrespect to the first radial displacement sensor 5. The second radialmagnetic bearing 9 comprises a stator and a rotor; the stator of thesecond radial magnetic bearing is fixed to the pump body 3 and the rotorof the second radial magnetic bearing is fixed to the rotor shaft 7; thesecond radial displacement sensor 10 is adapted for detecting radialdisplacement signals of the rotor with respect to the second radialdisplacement sensor 10. The rotor shaft 7 is supported by the firstradial magnetic bearing 6, the second radial magnetic bearing 9, thefirst axial magnetic bearing 13 and the second axial magnetic bearing15.

The control system of the magnetic levitation molecular pump comprises adisplacement detector 18, a rotational speed detector 19 and acontroller of the magnetic levitation molecular pump 2; the displacementdetector 18 is adapted for receiving displacement signals, and thesignal input thereof is in communication with the first radialdisplacement sensor 5, the second radial sensor 10 and the signal outputof the axial displacement sensor 16; and the signal output of thedisplacement detector 18 is in communication with the signal input ofthe controller of the magnetic levitation molecular pump 2; therotational speed detector 19 is adapted for detecting the rotationalspeed of the rotor; and the signal input thereof is in communicationwith a rotational speed detecting sensor through a connector 17 of themagnetic levitation molecular pump; the signal output of the rotationalspeed detector 19 is in communication with the signal input of thecontroller of the magnetic levitation molecular pump.

Various control algorithms modules are built inside the controller ofthe magnetic levitation molecular pump 2, so as to call a suitablecontrol algorithm for calculation through the controller of the magneticlevitation molecular pump 2 according to the displacement signalobtained by the displacement detector 18 and finally to drive thecorresponding magnetic bearing(s) (one or more than one of the firstradial magnetic bearing 6, the second radial magnetic bearing 9, thefirst axial magnetic bearing 13 and the second axial magnetic bearing15) to output electric magnetic forces for controlling the rotorsuspension. In addition, the controller of the magnetic levitationmolecular pump 2 can monitor the rotation of the rotor in real time,according to the rotational speed signal obtained by the rotationalspeed detector 19 and adjust the rotational speed of the rotor based onsystem requirements.

Furthermore, an open loop feed forward control module and a rotordynamic balancing module are disposed in the controller of the magneticlevitation molecular pump 2. In the present embodiment, by means of anopen loop feed forward control module, a control force having aninverted phase with respect to the co-frequency vibration of the rotor,is generated through the open loop feed forward control module, so as toinhibit the co-frequency vibrations of the rotor. By means of the openloop feed forward control module, co-frequency compositions of thedisplacement signals can be eliminated, and the co-frequency vibrationsof the rotor can be inhibited, so that the rotor can rotate around itsgeometric center, shown in FIG. 2. It is required that co-frequencycurrent of the rotor is supplied through a power amplifier controlled bythe controller for performing this method, and the method is adapted forbeing used in such circumstance that power of the magnetic bearing'spower amplifiers and the output power of magnetic bearings should begreat enough. The rotor dynamic balancing module is adapted forcalculating a required balance mass and the loaded phase thereof of therotor. In the present embodiment, an influence coefficient method forbalancing a rigid rotor is applied to the rotor dynamic balancing moduleso as to obtain the imbalance mass of the rotor.

After assembling the magnetic levitation molecular pump, it is requiredto perform rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to themagnetic levitation molecular pump for eliminating the imbalance mass ofthe rotor. In the present embodiment, the rigid critical rotationalspeed and the rated rotational speed ω_(E) of the rotor are known.Referring to FIG. 3, the method for dynamic balancing comprises stepsof:

step 1: activating an open loop feed forward control module of acontroller of the magnetic levitation molecular pump (2) afteractivating the motor (8) of the magnetic levitation molecular pump foracceleration;

controlling a displacement detector (18) through the controller of themagnetic levitation molecular pump (2) so as to collect radialdisplacement signals of the rotor of the magnetic levitation molecularpump and to detect radial vibration amplitude of the rotor; and

sequentially executing step 2, if the maximum radial vibration amplitudedoes not exceed ½ of a protective clearance during the acceleration ofthe rotor under the control of the open loop feed forward controlmodule, indicating that the open loop feed forward control module isable to inhibit the co-frequency vibration of the rotor, so as to allowthe rotational speed of the rotor to exceed its rigid criticalrotational speed; or

applying a typical rotor dynamic balancing method to achieve a low-speedbalancing, so as to ensure the radial vibration amplitude of the rotornot to exceed ½ of the protective clearance before the rotational speedof the rotor exceeds the rigid critical rotational speed thereof, if themaximum radial vibration amplitude of the rotor exceeds ½ of theprotective clearance, and then sequentially executing step 2, after therotational speed of the rotor exceeds the rigid critical rotationalspeed thereof;

step 2: detecting the radial vibration amplitude of the rotor throughthe displacement detector (18) during the further acceleration of themotor (8); and stopping accelerating the motor (8), so as to stabilizethe rotor at rotational speed ω_(i)(i=0, 1, 2 . . . ), when the radialvibration amplitude of the rotor exceeds a preset vibration threshold ofthe rotor with respect to the nonrated rotational speed;

detecting the current rotational speed ω_(i) through a rotational speeddetector (19) controlled by the controller of the magnetic levitationmolecular pump (2); and

determining if the rotational speed ω_(i) is below the rated rotationalspeed of the rotor ω_(E); if ω_(i) is below ω_(E), then sequentiallyexecuting step 3, otherwise jumping to step 5;

step 3: performing rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to therotor at the nonrated rotational speed, by means of influencecoefficient method, under the control of the open loop feed forwardcontrol module, with the rotor dynamic balancing operation for the rotorat ω_(i) comprising steps of (referring to FIG. 4);

3 a) calling a rotor dynamic balancing module through the controller ofthe magnetic levitation molecular pump (2) according to the currentradial vibration amplitude and the rotational speed of the rotor, afterthe rotor with two balance planes preset thereon is accelerated toω_(i), and recording the current initial imbalance vector V₀ measured bya first radial displacement sensor and a second radial displacementsensor, wherein, the two balance planes are preset respectively awayfrom the barycenter of the rotor, but located close to both ends of therotor;

3 b) turning off the motor of the magnetic levitation molecular pump, soas to decelerate the rotor to zero, and adding a trial mass m₁ on afirst balance plane; then restarting the magnetic levitation molecularpump, so as to accelerate to the rotational speed ω_(i), and recordingthe current imbalance vector V₁ measured by the first radialdisplacement sensor and the second radial displacement sensor;

3 c) decelerating the rotor again to zero, and removing the trial massm₁ while adding a trial mass m₂ on a second balance plane; and thenrestarting the magnetic levitation molecular pump, so as to accelerateit to rotational speed ω_(i) according to the aforesaid steps, andrecording a current imbalance vector V₂ measured by the first radialdisplacement sensor and the second radial displacement sensor;

3 d) with M₁ and M₂ in correspondence to the initial imbalance masses ofthe two imbalance planes respectively, calculating influence coefficientmatrix T by means of influence coefficient method, which is:

V ₀ =T[M ₁ M ₂]^(T)

V ₁ =T[M ₁ +m ₁ M ₂]^(r)

V ₂ =T[M ₁ M ₂ +m ₂]^(T)

obtaining the influence coefficient matrix T according to the aforesaidmatrix equations, and obtaining the initial imbalance mass matrix [M1M2]^(T)=T⁻¹V₀ through substitution in the first matrix equation;

3 e) decelerating the rotor to zero, performing the rotor dynamicbalancing operation through adding or removing weight to or from the twoimbalance planes respectively based on the initial imbalance massesmeasured by means of step 3 d);

3 f) restarting the magnetic levitation molecular pump, whileaccelerating the rotor to ω_(i), and detecting the radial vibrationamplitude of the rotor, if the detected radial vibration amplitude isbelow the preset vibration threshold regarding the nonrated rotationalspeed, completing the rotor dynamic balancing operation at the currentrotational speed and jumping to the next step; otherwise, repeating withstep 3 a) to 3 f) till the detected radial vibration amplitude of therotor is below the preset vibration threshold with respect to thenonrated rotational speed when the rotor rotates at speed ω_(i), andsequentially executing step 4;

step 4: letting i=i+1, and repeating step 2;

step 5: under the control of the open loop feed forward control module,performing rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to the rotorat a rated rotational speed; the radial vibration amplitude of the rotoris below the preset vibration threshold regarding the nonratedrotational speed during the acceleration of the rotor from zero toω_(E); and when the rotational speed of the rotor reaches ω_(E), theradial vibration amplitude of the rotor is below the preset vibrationthreshold with respect to the rated rotational speed as well as theresidual imbalance mass of the rotor is less than the preset imbalancemass, completing the rotor dynamic balancing operation. The range of thevibration threshold with respect to the rated rotational speed is [0.05μm, 0.1 μm]; and the range of the preset imbalance mass is [5 mg, 12mg]. In the present embodiment, the vibration threshold with respect tothe rated rotational speed is 0.1 μm, and the preset imbalance mass is10 mg. More specifically, the method comprises steps of:

A. if ω_(i)>ω_(E), activating the motor (8) for decelerating the rotorspeed to ω_(E), otherwise keeping the rotor rotating at ω_(E);

B. calling the rotor dynamic balancing module by the controller of themagnetic levitation molecular pump (2) based on the current radialvibration amplitude and the rotational speed of the rotor, andperforming rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to the rotorby means of influence coefficient method; performing rotor dynamicbalancing operation with respect to the rotor rotating at ω_(E)according to step (3 a) to (3 e), so as to obtain a required balancemass and its loaded phase of the rotor; turning off the motor (8) fordecelerating the rotor to zero and sequentially executing step C;

C. performing rotor dynamic balancing operation with respect to therotor according to the calculated required balance mass and its loadedphase and sequentially executing step D;

D. activating the motor (8), and activating the open loop feed forwardcontrol module, and detecting radial vibration amplitude of the rotor bythe displacement detector (18); and sequentially executing step E, ifunder the control of the open loop feed forward control module, themaximum radial vibration amplitude of the rotor caused by imbalancemasses of the rotor does not exceed ½ of the protective clearance duringthe acceleration of the rotor, indicating that the open loop feedforward control module is able to inhibit the synchronous vibrations ofthe rotor and the rotor can be accelerated beyond its rigid criticalrotational speed;

E: detecting radial vibration amplitude of the rotor during theacceleration of the rotor to ω_(E) during the further acceleration ofthe motor (8), and sequentially executing step F, if the radialvibration amplitude of the rotor is lower than the preset vibrationthreshold regarding the nonrated rotational speed, then; or turning offthe motor (8) from accelerating, and repeating the step B, if thedetected radial vibration amplitude of the rotor is over or equivalentto the preset vibration threshold regarding the nonrated rotationalspeed;

F: activating the motor (8) for further accelerating the rotor to ω_(E);turning off the motor (8) from acceleration, and keeping the rotorrotating at ω_(E), and then sequentially executing step G;

G. detecting the current radial vibration amplitude of the rotor,

a. if the radial vibration amplitude of the rotor is lower than thepreset vibration threshold regarding the rated rotational speed, callingthe rotor dynamic balancing module via the controller of the magneticlevitation molecular pump (2) according to the current radial vibrationamplitude and the phase of the rotor; performing rotor dynamic balancingoperation with respect to the rotor by means of influence coefficientmethod, so as to obtain the required balance mass and its loaded phaseof the rotor, and turning off the motor (8) for decelerating the rotorto zero:

i. if the residual imbalance mass of the rotor is smaller than thepreset imbalance mass, completing the rotor dynamic balancing operation;

ii. otherwise sequentially executing step C;

b. if the radial vibration amplitude of the rotor is above or equivalentto the preset vibration threshold with respect to the rated rotationalspeed, then repeating step B.

In an alternative embodiment, before the step 1, the method for rotordynamic balancing further comprises steps of dynamical simulationcalculating for the magnetic levitation molecular pump and obtaining therigid critical rotational speed of the rotor and the rated rotationalspeed ω_(E), by means of known method for calculating and testing ofprior art.

In an alternative embodiment, given to various circumstances, thevibration threshold with respect to the nonrated rotational speed may be20 μm, 25 μm, 30 μm or 35 μm etc., and the vibration threshold withrespect to the rated rotational speed may be 0.05 μm, 0.07 μm or 0.09 μmetc. and the preset imbalance mass may be 5 mg, 8 mg or 12 mg etc.,which can also achieve the objectives of the present invention.

Although the present invention has been described with particularreference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, variations andmodifications of the present invention can be effected within the spiritand scope of the claims.

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A method of rotor dynamic balancing for magnetic levitation molecularpump, wherein comprising steps of: step 1: activating an open loop feedforward control module of a controller of said magnetic levitationmolecular pump after activating a motor of said magnetic levitationmolecular pump for acceleration; controlling a displacement detectorthrough said controller of said magnetic levitation molecular pump so asto collect radial displacement signals of a rotor of said magneticlevitation molecular pump and to detect radial vibration amplitude ofsaid rotor; and sequentially executing step 2, if the maximum radialvibration amplitude does not exceed ½ of a protective clearance duringthe acceleration of said rotor under the open loop feed forward controlmodule control, indicating that open loop feed forward control module isable to inhibit the co-frequency vibration of said rotor, so as to allowthe rotational speed of said rotor to exceed its rigid criticalrotational speed; or applying a typical rotor dynamic balancing methodto achieve a low-speed balancing, so as to ensure the radial vibrationamplitude of said rotor not to exceed ½ of said protective clearancebefore the rotational speed of said rotor exceeds the rigid criticalrotational speed thereof, if the maximum radial vibration amplitude ofsaid rotor exceeds ½ of said protective clearance, and then sequentiallyexecuting step 2, after the rotational speed of said rotor exceeds therigid critical rotational speed thereof; step 2: detecting the radialvibration amplitude of said rotor through said displacement detectorduring the further acceleration of said motor; and stopping acceleratingsaid motor, so as to stabilize said rotor at rotational speed ω_(i)(i=0,1, 2 . . . ), when the radial vibration amplitude of said rotor exceedsa preset vibration threshold of said rotor with respect to the nonratedrotational speed detecting the current rotational speed ω_(i) through arotational speed detector controlled by said controller of said magneticlevitation molecular pump; and determining if the rotational speed ω_(i)is below the rated rotational speed of said rotor ω_(E); if ω_(i) isbelow ω_(E), then sequentially executing step 3, otherwise jumping tostep 5; step 3: performing rotor dynamic balancing operation withrespect to said rotor at the nonrated rotational speed, by means ofinfluence coefficient method, under the open loop feed forward controlmodule, with the operation of rotor dynamic balancing for said rotor atω_(i) comprising steps of: 3 a) calling a rotor dynamic balancing modulethrough said controller of said magnetic levitation molecular pumpaccording to the current radial vibration amplitude and the rotationalspeed of said rotor, after said rotor with two balance planes presetthereon is accelerated to ω_(i), and recording the current initialimbalance vector V₀ measured by a first radial displacement sensor and asecond radial displacement sensor; wherein, the two balance planes arepreset respectively away from the barycenter of the rotor and close toboth ends of the rotor; 3 b) turning off said motor of said magneticlevitation molecular pump, so as to decelerate said rotor to zero, andadding a trial mass m₁ on a first balance plane; then restarting saidmagnetic levitation molecular pump so as to accelerate to the rotationalspeed ω_(i), and recording the current imbalance vector V₁ measured bysaid first radial displacement sensor and said second radialdisplacement sensor; 3 c) decelerating said rotor again to zero, andremoving said trial mass m₁ while adding a trial mass m₂ on a secondbalance plane; and then restarting said magnetic levitation molecularpump so as to accelerate it to rotational speed ω_(i) according to theaforesaid steps, and recording a current imbalance vector V₂ measured bysaid first radial displacement sensor and said second radialdisplacement sensor; 3 d) with M₁ and M₂ in correspondence to theinitial imbalance masses of the two imbalance planes respectively.calculating influence coefficient matrix T by means of influencecoefficient method, which is:V ₀ =T[M ₁ M2]^(T)V ₁ =T[M ₁ +m ₁ M ₂]^(T)V ₂ =T[M ₁ M ₂ +m ₂]^(T) obtaining the influence coefficient matrix Taccording to the aforesaid matrix equations, and obtaining the initialimbalance mass matrix [M1 M2]^(T)=T⁻¹V₀ through substitution in thefirst matrix equation; 3 e) decelerating said rotor to zero, performingthe rotor dynamic balancing operation through adding or removing weightto or from said two imbalance planes respectively based on the initialimbalance masses measured by means of step 3 d); 3 f) restarting saidmagnetic levitation molecular pump, while accelerating said rotor toω_(i), and detecting the vibration amplitude of said rotor if it isbelow the preset vibration threshold with respect to the nonratedrotational speed; if the detected radial vibration amplitude is belowsaid preset vibration threshold regarding the nonrated rotational speed,completing the rotor dynamic balancing operation at the currentrotational speed and jumping to the next step; otherwise, repeating withstep 3 a) to 3 f) till said rotor rotating at speed ω_(i), and thedetected radial vibration amplitude of said rotor is below the presetvibration threshold with respect to the nonrated rotational speed whenthe rotor rotates at speed ω₇, and sequentially executing step 4; step4: letting i=i+1, and repeating step 2; step 5: under the control of theopen loop feed forward control module, performing rotor dynamicbalancing operation with respect to said rotor at a rated rotationalspeed; the radial vibration amplitude of said rotor is below the presetvibration threshold regarding the nonrated rotational speed during theacceleration of said rotor from zero to ω_(E); and when the rotationalspeed of said rotor reaches ω_(E), the radial vibration amplitude ofsaid rotor is below the preset vibration threshold with respect to therated rotational speed as well as the residual imbalance mass of saidrotor is less than the preset imbalance mass, completing the rotordynamic balancing operation.
 2. The method of rotor dynamic balancing ofclaim 1, wherein said step 5 further comprises steps of: A. ifω_(i)>ω_(E), activating said motor for decelerating said rotor speed toω_(E), otherwise keeping said rotor rotating at ω_(E); B. calling saidrotor dynamic balancing module by said controller of said magneticlevitation molecular pump based on the current radial vibrationamplitude and the rotational speed of said rotor, and performing rotordynamic balancing operation with respect to said rotor by means ofinfluence coefficient method; performing rotor dynamic balancingoperation with respect to said rotor rotating at ω_(E) according to step3 a) to 3 e), so as to obtain a required balance mass and its loadedphase of said rotor; turning off said motor for decelerating said rotorto zero and sequentially executing step C; C. performing rotor dynamicbalancing operation with respect to said rotor according to thecalculated required balance mass and its loaded phase and sequentiallyexecuting step D; D. activating said motor, and activating the open loopfeed forward control module, and detecting radial vibration amplitude ofsaid rotor by said displacement detector; and sequentially executingstep E, if under the control of the open loop feed forward controlmodule, the maximum radial vibration amplitude of said rotor caused byimbalance masses of said rotor does not exceed ½ of said protectiveclearance during the acceleration of said rotor, indicating that theopen loop feed forward control module is able to inhibit the synchronousvibrations of said rotor and the rotor can be accelerated beyond itsrigid critical rotational speed; E: detecting radial vibration amplitudeof said rotor during the acceleration of said rotor to ω_(E) during thefurther acceleration of said motor, and sequentially executing step F,if the radial vibration amplitude of said rotor is lower than the presetvibration threshold regarding the nonrated rotational speed, then; orturning off said motor from accelerating, and repeating said step B, ifthe detected radial vibration amplitude of said rotor is over orequivalent to the preset vibration threshold regarding the nonratedrotational speed; F: activating said motor for further accelerating saidrotor to ω_(E); turning off said motor from acceleration, and keepingsaid rotor rotating at ω_(E), and then sequentially executing step G; G.detecting the current radial vibration amplitude of said rotor, a. ifthe radial vibration amplitude of said rotor is lower than the presetvibration threshold regarding the rated rotational speed, calling saidrotor dynamic balancing module via said controller of said magneticlevitation molecular pump according to the current radial vibrationamplitude and the phase of said rotor; performing rotor dynamicbalancing operation with respect to said rotor by means of influencecoefficient method so as to obtain the required balance mass and itsloaded phase of said rotor, and turning off said motor for deceleratingsaid rotor to zero: i. if the residual imbalance mass of said rotor issmaller than the preset imbalance mass, completing the rotor dynamicbalancing operation; ii. otherwise sequentially executing step C; b. ifthe radial vibration amplitude of said rotor is above or equivalent tothe preset vibration threshold with respect to the rated rotationalspeed, then repeating step B.
 3. The method of rotor dynamic balancingof claim 1, wherein said two balance planes are disposed on an upperportion and a lower portion of said rotor respectively, which arerespectively far away from the barycenter of said rotor and close to twoends of said rotor.
 4. The method of rotor dynamic balancing of claim 1,wherein the range of said vibration threshold with respect to thenonrated rotational speed is [20 μm, 40 μm]; the range of said vibrationthreshold with respect to the rated rotational speed is [0.05 μm, 0.1μm]; and the range of said preset imbalance mass is [5 mg, 12 mg]. 5.The method of rotor dynamic balancing of claim 1, wherein said vibrationthreshold with respect to the nonrated rotational speed is 40 μm; saidvibration threshold with respect to the rated rotational speed is 0.1μm; and said preset imbalance mass is 10 mg.
 6. The method of rotordynamic balancing of claim 1, wherein, before said step 1, furthercomprising steps of dynamical simulation calculating for said magneticlevitation molecular pump and obtaining the rigid critical rotationalspeed of said rotor and the rated rotational speed ω_(E).
 7. The methodof rotor dynamic balancing of claim 4, wherein, further comprising thestep of collecting the radial vibration amplitude of said rotor via saiddisplacement detector through said first radial displacement sensor andsaid second radial displacement sensor, and collecting the rotationalspeed of said rotor via said rotational speed detector through arotational speed detecting sensor.
 8. The method of rotor dynamicbalancing of claim 5, wherein, further comprising the step of collectingthe radial vibration amplitude of said rotor via said displacementdetector through said first radial displacement sensor and said secondradial displacement sensor, and collecting the rotational speed of saidrotor via said rotational speed detector through a rotational speeddetecting sensor.
 9. The method of rotor dynamic balancing of claim 6,wherein, further comprising the step of collecting the radial vibrationamplitude of said rotor via said displacement detector through saidfirst radial displacement sensor and said second radial displacementsensor, and collecting the rotational speed of said rotor via saidrotational speed detector through a rotational speed detecting sensor.